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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Silicon Valley"”.
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Effective Health Communication Measures within the Silicon Valley
… of Public Health. Fieldwork conducted with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Communication Team demonstrated the importance of using various social media platforms to effectively reach the largest audience. Content creators need to be aware of the target audience and identify the appropriate …
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The political economy of industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1989.
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Developing future innovation hubs Through the case study of Silicon Valley
… and to enhance economic vitality. The study uses Silicon Valley, one of the most successful innovation hubs in modern history, as a case example to find the factors that have contributed to its success, and how these factors will evolve over time. Using existing literature and in-depth interviews, …
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Silicon Valley and the State: Towards a Political Theory of Technology Corporations
The power of contemporary technology corporations has been at the center of public and academic debate over the past decade. Yet despite repeated calls for serious disciplinary attention, corporations in general have been under-theorized within political theory, often thought of as exclusively the …
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The sprawl of the wild : a new infrastructural landscape in Silicon Valley
… River Delta water supply system - which provides Silicon Valley with most of its fresh water - periodically draws down water delivery due to drought and environmental degradation. Currently, these policyscale decisions may only be met with very small-scale compensatory measures (on the order of …
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Towards a new high technology development in the Silicon Valley : a 21st century urban design vision
Santa Clara Valley, perhaps better known as the Silicon Valley, is currently facing many problems and uncertainties. The explosion of the high technology industry has changed the regional scene faster than anyone could predict The once agriculturally based community has became urbanized overnight. …
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How do attitudes of habitual high-technology entrepreneurs to early-stage failure differ in Silicon Valley, Cambridge and Munich?
… technology companies differ in the USA (Silicon Valley), UK (Cambridge) and Germany (Munich), and implications for entrepreneurial learning and opportunity identification in these regions. Interviews with habitual entrepreneurs explore their experiences of failed ventures, using a …
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Worker rights protection in Mexico's Silicon Valley : confronting low-road labor practices in high-tech manufacturing through antagonistic collaboration
… manufacturing cluster known as Mexico's Silicon Valley located in Guadalajara for over a decade. Specifically, this thesis analyzes how the organization has evolved its activities over time and the local and international relationships it has developed to protect worker labor rights and …
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The Effects of Gender-Aware Leadership-Development Training on the Leadership- Behavioral Competencies of Women Software Engineers in California’s Silicon Valley
… among women software engineers in a California Silicon Valley engineering community with a two-phase, mixed-methods research design. The training workshop was developed using a framework for developing leadership-behavioral competencies among women (LBCW), which was congruent with theoretical …
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Entrepreneurial clusters in knowledge-driven economies : an essay on their evolutionary dynamics
… regions. The most famous examples include Silicon Valley and the Route 128 area of Boston. The results of this study provide insight into why and how such entrepreneurial clusters have evolved to generate more entrepreneurial opportunities than others. With a proposed framework, the thesis …
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Startup hiring practices
… of hiring practices at technology startups in Silicon Valley and the USA.
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The dynamics of forming a technology based start-up : how founders use external advice to improve their firm's chance of succeeding
… mentor these first-timers into successful CEOs. Silicon Valley advisors and others affiliated with Silicon Valley companies were much more likely to introduce the founders to their influential network, which illustrates the rich entrepreneurial nature of Silicon Valley. There was no statistically …
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Deferential Form
… many of which are in the suburban regions of Silicon Valley where they have erected massive symbolic entity. However, with the lack of urban fabric in Silicon Valley, the “Google Bus” would transport tech employees to work in the suburbs and back to the city of San Francisco leaving behind a …
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